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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Thursday Talk: My year in cloth diapering

My Year in Cloth Diapering

I
knew I wanted to cloth diaper but I was so intimidated by it. In my 20
years of babysitting, working at daycares and being a nanny, I had never
had a cloth diaper family. But it just made so much sense to do it and I
was determined.

For
months while pregnant I watched and re watched so many YouTube videos
explaining washing, wearing and all other tips of using cloth diapers. I
read every blog I could find trying to wrap my head around how it
works. It's so simple but I just couldn't get it. What did I really
need? What detergent do I use? What brand do I buy? Finally after a
long phone call with an out of town friend and a visit to our local
cloth diaper store that was it, I was just going to buy my first stash
and go for it.

Well
that stash sat clean and ready to go until my baby girl was 2 months.
We went with one size pockets. If I did it all over again I would have
bought a small stash of newborn size for the beginning, but I was still
nervous about how everything would go. About a month after starting we
went on vacation. I bought a cheap pack of disposables so I wouldn't
have to worry about washing while we were gone. The hotel ended up
having a washer and dryer in the room and my baby ended up with the
worst diaper rash I had ever seen. I felt awful both because of the rash
and that I hadn't brought the cloth diapers.Even
now we still have our bumps like a few months ago when her diapers were
pee-smelly all the time. No matter what I did to try to clean them or
how many times I ran them through the washer. I read about stripping
diapers which sounded intense and not like something I wanted to do.
But on another trip to the fluff store and they suggested a new
detergent along with multiple hot washes. It worked great and with this
new detergent we haven't had a problem since.

Walking
through Target or Babies R Us and passing the diaper aisle I'm blown
away by how much disposables are and how much we have saved already in a
year. Not to mention how much waste is created. I do have to stop
myself though from buying up every cute print I find in cloth. Our stash
is plenty big already!

I switched my son to cloth at 7 months old and we LOVE it! He is 15 months now) However, we still are trying to figure out a night-time solution. Since we are still nursing & bedsharing at night, little man 'sleeps' for about 11 hours. We've been doing disposables for bed, but I want to figure out a cloth solution.

AbbeyG- I would HIGHLY recommend the Cow Patties pocket fitted if you haven't tried it yet. It's all bamboo fleece, including the insert (other than the outer print you pick). Paired with wool or fleece it's fantastic. A few customers have used a minky print as the outer fabric on it which adds even more protection!

So cute baby in the diaper. I just love the post. And i think cloth diapers have become a popular product in the world of parenting today. There are various types of cloth diapers sold in the market. Beside friendlier on your baby's skin, cloth diapers also plays an important role in reducing the impact of waste from disposable diapers. Baby cloth diapers